Near Field Communications Handsets and Tags, NFC Pilots and Projects

Another thing NFC could change forever: product warranties

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Warranties are great, if only people can remember where they put them when they need them. That problem could be a thing of the past, with NFC technology and NFC tags. United Tecsta has designed a new NFC tag that’s supposed to stay attached to a product for the lifetime of its use.

The NFC tag would presumably be embedded in the inside of the product and would hold product warranty information such as sale date, price paid, warranty length, etc. The tag could then be read by a scanning device such as a modern NFC-based smart phone.


This would streamline the warranty process for both the business and the consumer. According to Fast Company, the consumer would no longer have to hunt down a piece of paper when claiming a warranty and the business could electronically track warranty claims with the manufacturer.

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Mobile operator Digicel Pacific Limited has announced the deployment of VeriFone’s mWallet services and NFC-enabled payment systems in the Kingdom of Tonga.

Starting this week, Digicel subscribers in the the Tongan capital Nuku’alofa will be able to receive NFC tags that are linked to their mobile phone numbers and VeriFone’s contactless payment acceptance systems. Customers can affix these tags to their phones to tap and pay at over 50 merchants in Nuku’alofa.

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Astral Out-of-Home, a division of Canadian media company Astral Media, has announced the addition of NFC technology in its street advertisements throughout Toronto and Montréal.

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RIM has revealed a new NFC sharing app for BlackBerry handsets at BlackBerry World in Orlando, Fla.

According to Pocket-lint, BlackBerry Share enables users with NFC-enabled handsets to share apps with each other by simply tapping the two phones together. Once a connection has been made, each user will be presented with a list of apps the other user has downloaded from BlackBerry App World.

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Poken, a provider of NFC tag-based marketing solutions, has received $2 million in an investment round led by Swisscom Ventures and Credit Suisse to expand its U.S. sales operations.

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